All events in 2017

Topics of this year's symposium include: internal waves, waves and ice, freak waves and wave-structure interaction as well as related aspects of stratified and buoyancy-driven oceanic flows. More details in the attached program. The symposium will be conducted in English.

Louis Nirenberg, Abel Prize Laureate in 2015, will give a lecture at the Abel in Barcelona-event. There will also be lectures by two of the members of the Abel committee, Luigi Ambrosio and Ben Green. For more details see the attached poster.

The new CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which was selected as the breakthrough of the year in 2015 by Science, allows introduction of changes in the genome without the addition of foreign genetic material. The applications are manifold, in medicine, and in the bio-sciences. Emmanuelle Charpentier, one of the discoverers of the technology, speaks at this open meeting, along with Ragnhild Eskeland and Olav Gjelsvik.

The name of the 2017 Abel Laureate will be announced by the President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The chair of the Abel committee will then give the reasons for the awarding of the prize, followed by a popular science presentation of the prize winner's work.

Yves Meyer will receive the Abel Prize at an award ceremony in the University Aula in Oslo, Norway. The ceremony will be followed by a reception and an interview with Meyer in front of a live audience at a nearby theatre, Det Norske Teatret.

The Nansen Neuroscience Lectures (NNL) are organized in conjunction with Fridtjof Nansen's birthday to commemorate his fundamental contribution to neuroscience*. The NNLs are given by speakers selected from the top tier of neuroscience research.

The topic of this year's Academy Symposium will be Fake News and Alternative Facts. We have invited prominent speakers from political science, philosophy, psychology, media science and law, as well as journalists and politicians to address a cluster of issues.

Why is dialogue between politicians and academia important? How can we improve the conversation? What is the current status on what we know and don't? What do politicians need of new knowledge in order to make impactful policies, and what role will the industry play in tackling our generations most pressing problem?

Leading politicians and scientists will meet November 10th in The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to discuss what knowledge politicians need in order to make impactful policies to tackle climate change. Among the participants is the governor of California Jerry Brown, the Minister of Climate and Environment Vidar Helgesen and world leading climate researchers from Nordic and foreign academies.

The Saturday 11th session will be an extension of the previous day's conversation, drawing further on expertise from academia and politics, and bringing in fresh perspectives from industry.